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Its 1234567890 Day today! On Friday, February 13 at exactly 3:31:30 PM (PST) Unix time will equal 1234567890. The world is celebrating the milestone with global 1234567890 parties today.

So what is Unix time? Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used on Unix-like operating systems and many other computing systems. So 1234567890 means (2009-02-13 23:31:30Z).

Someone set up a countdown counter which shows under 7 hours till the event finale. See which 1234567890 Day parties are occurring in your city and join the fun.

A similar numerological date in computer history occurred on March 17, 2005 when at 19:58:31 Central Time, for the first time the entire world of computers rolled over to the longest ever number of repeating clock digits: 1,111,111,111 seconds. If you had software that supported milliseconds, you could see an amazing timestamp of 1,111,111,111,111.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Five Updates from Your Author: Hellow everyone! It's been quiet on the home front and I know you all would love to know what's going on. First off: Tanner's Devil I have signed a contract to publish with Red Rose Publishing (www.redrosepublishing) for electronic and print rights. I will rely on you to spread the word about this book and of course [...]

Monday, February 2, 2009

Amazon.com and Penguin Group (USA) Now Accepting Submissions for Second Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition Through Feb. 8

SEATTLE & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Penguin Group (USA) (NYSE:PSO) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition at www.amazon.com/abna from today through midnight EST on Feb. 8, 2009. The competition aims to find the next popular novel, with the winner to receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA), which includes a $25,000 advance. Entries will be accepted until Feb. 8, or until 10,000 entries have been received, whichever comes first. Once the submission window has closed, the entries will be evaluated and the selection process will begin. Key dates for the competition are as follows:

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Penguin Group (USA) Inc. is the U.S. member of the internationally renowned Penguin Group. Penguin Group (USA) is one of the leading U.S. adult and children's trade book publishers, owning a wide range of imprints and trademarks, including Viking, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Penguin Press, Riverhead Books, Dutton, Penguin Books, Berkley Books, Gotham Books, Portfolio, New American Library, Plume, Tarcher, Philomel, Grosset & Dunlap, Puffin, and Frederick Warne, among others. The Penguin Group (http://www.penguin.com) is part of Pearson plc, the international media company.

About CreateSpace

CreateSpace is a business of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). A leader in manufacture on demand services for independent creative content owners, CreateSpace was originally founded as CustomFlix Labs, Inc. in 2002 and acquired by Amazon.com, Inc. in 2005. The company's mission is to connect its members to a worldwide audience through multiple channels, including Amazon.com. CreateSpace provides inventory-free, physical distribution of Books, CDs and DVDs on Demand, video downloads via Amazon Video On Demand and music downloads via Amazon MP3.